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I may get shot down for this, but I was wondering if anybody thinks album art has some kind of subconcious bearing on the way the album feels to listen to? Like, does the artwork have a direct influence on the kind of emotion and imagery that the music itself conjures up?

I was talking to my friend who has that condition where you see colours when you hear songs about this and concluded that I associate colours with songs and albums but it's almost entirely down to the album art.

For example all the songs off Revolver are black and white in my head.

And Los Campesinos are all colourful because their picture on myspace when I first listened to them was all colourful.

Once you see some album covers you CAN NEVER GO BACK. When I listen to albums such as Relationship Of Command, the weird horse thing on the front seems perfect, when I listen to Effloresce, the whispy red smoke stuff I can just imagine swirling around when listening to the album.

Once you see some album covers you CAN NEVER GO BACK. When I listen to albums such as Relationship Of Command, the weird horse thing on the front seems perfect, when I listen to Effloresce, the whispy red smoke stuff I can just imagine swirling around when listening to the album.

Once you see some album covers you CAN NEVER GO BACK. When I listen to albums such as Relationship Of Command, the weird horse thing on the front seems perfect, when I listen to Effloresce, the whispy red smoke stuff I can just imagine swirling around when listening to the album.